Tribal students various agencies of Fata, on Friday staged a protest demonstration against the closure of scholarship programme for them under Prime Minister Scheme demanding the government to immediately resume the programme in the tribal region. The protest demonstration was spearheaded by Fata Students Organisation, central president Shaukat Aziz, President Peshawar University tribal students association Haleem Orakzai and Arsalan and dozens of tribal students, which were studying various education institutions in the settled areas.
Talking to reporters, the tribal student organisation president said that the tribal students, studying in University of Peshawar and other education institutions, had submitted forms for attainment of scholarship under Prime Minister Scheme. He said the despite approval of the Fata scholarship by Higher Education Commission, the university administration deprived more 146 tribal students to take benefit from the scholarship program, which were using delaying tactics to issue scholarship to them. The tribal students demanded the Federal government and Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to take notice of the issue and give them scholarships otherwise they would compel to protest against it.
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